Re: Pulled pork

Pulled pork seems to be popular at the moment , I went to the street party at Fifteen in early summer , quite a few of the street food vendors were selling pulled pork . I am told its realy good to eat .

Re: Pulled pork

Pulled pork is very popular here, a truly American dish. My recipe is for North Carolina style pulled pork.

Make a rub using salt, pepper, cayenne, paprika, thyme garlic powder and onion powder. Rub all over the pork butt and place in a deep roasting dish and cover with foil. Roast it in the oven covered at 325F for about 6hrs.

Let it rest for at least 40min and then remove the bone and pull the pork. Mix in the special sauce made with red wine vinegar, a big glob of yellow mustard and ceyenne pepper.

Serve on a bun with plain cole slaw (mayo, vinegar, celery seed salt) and you've got yourself an american classic.

Re: Pulled pork

I love coleslaw, but Mr. Hippytea hates cabbage and mayo! So I sliced up apples and mixed them with plain yoghurt and honey. Went really well with the pulled pork. It was (and is) fabulous stuff, we have a couple of boxes still left in the freezer for future enjoyment.

I should have said, with that Chow recipe, I doubled all the rub ingredients except the salt, and I'm glad I did - for my 6lb roast, there wouldn't have been enough if I had followed the recipe straight. I also rubbed the pork and left it overnight, just to save time in the morning.

Re: Pulled pork

mummza wrote:

only rarely will you see it labeled as butt or boston butt here. More common is pork shoulder or blade roast .

I have tried to find a definitive reason behind the name before with no real luck.

I can give you the oft repeated internet folklore .

During revolutionary and civil war times , cheaper cuts of meat including pork were packed in casks or Butts for transport. Pork shoulder roasts that were cut in a specific way in boston eventually became known as boston butt .

Slow cooker pulled pork is pretty nice stuff but it really loses something by not having the bits of bark mixed in that come from slow smoking.

For those that are thinking , " What is he going on about now?"

Bark is a bbq term that refers to the way the outside of the pork with the rub forms a very flavourful crust.

Re: Pulled pork

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